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I believe that means the mother is usually the one who rocks the cradle. This is from the "olden" days when cradles were quite common and most mothers stayed home to rear their children. The majority of mothers used to be stay-at-home moms and the disciplining and nurturing was left up to them. The father would go out to work and expected the housework to be done by the wife. As time went on, the mothers started working outside the home and nowadays it is 65% of the moms who leave their children with others while they work for wages. I personally believe that is why many children have no manners and expect everything to be handed to them. If the parents were stricter and disciplined their children on a regular basis with consequences for bad behaviors exhibited by their children this would be a more structured environment for everyone.

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